How to Loggout?

[Paul L. Allen]

Jason Martin writes: 

> It is actually a problem with the HTTP Spec

Not really.  The spec provides a simple means of authenticating yourself.
In many cases it is reasonable to assume that you will want to keep on
authenticating yourself.  In some situations you need to be able to logout,
and then it is up to the website to use a different means of authentication. 

Yahoo, Hotmail and many other sites all use a different means of
authentication so people can logout, because these are services that are
often accessed from internet cafes or library internet terminals.  Most
people who use Nagios have little need to be able to logout, so it was
reasonable for Ethan to use the HTTP authentiaction mechanism. 

> once a password is provided for a security realm, there isn't a way to
> get the server to 'forget' it.

It is the browser that remembers the credentials, not the server.  You
may be able to fiddle it with a sub-directory which has a .htaccess
defining the same realm but pointing to an empty password file.  Going
to a page there may cause the browser to put up another login box, which
will fail, then the password is forgotten.  Clumsy, but not as clumsy as
restarting your browser. 

-- 
Paul Allen
Softflare Support 




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